Rhule wanted a sports science program. Tepper agreed to fund it.

[My Goodness My Guinness]

9 minutes ago, countryboi said:

what does a sports science program do?

The most interesting thing I've seen recently is identifying an athletes natural weakness in motion that may be prone to injury and addressing it with proper exercises. 

A good example is landing from a jump and your knees buckling inward. 

Then you have a lot of rehabilitation and also a good bit of concussion research. 

[1of10Charnatives]

14 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

this will be a huge boon to the new MLS team and pretty much all the sports programs of the city and region

a lot of people don't know this but for years charlotte was literally the center of the swimming world. MAC was just shitting out olympic and D1 swimmers.

Hell, on my team at fuging Mountainbrook our 4x100 free team had two D1 swimmers, a fuging Gold Medal Olympian, then me because i was big for my age lmao

I was a church youth counselor a while back for a kid who went to Florida State on a diving scholarship. I was vaguely aware Charlotte produced some good swimmers, but not to that degree.

[1of10Charnatives]

12 minutes ago, beastson said:

He doesn't have NFL head coaching experience, but he worked for the Giants in 2012.

Good to know, thanks.

[Tbe]

4 minutes ago, 1of10Charnatives said:

I was a church youth counselor a while back for a kid who went to Florida State on a diving scholarship. I was vaguely aware Charlotte produced some good swimmers, but not to that degree.

Yeah, the long time US women’s Olympic coach lives here and runs MAC. He coaches a lot of big name male Olympic swimmers as well. Ryan Lochte used to live here when he was training.

[gofightwin]

16 minutes ago, 1of10Charnatives said:

I was a church youth counselor a while back for a kid who went to Florida State on a diving scholarship. I was vaguely aware Charlotte produced some good swimmers, but not to that degree.

The elite swimMAC swimmers aren't from here.  They came here to train with David Marsh.